The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
HE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY NAY 49, 1887TWELvE PAGES.
A Growing City.


There is a saying that commercial cities
on the sea coast are not built up, but grow
up" With the exception of Savannah and
Charleston al the seaports on the Atlantic
coast hold the same relative position at pres
ent that they did twenty years ago. Charles
ton has about the same number of inhabitants
she had in 1850 Savannah has about three
times the number she had at that date.
Brunswick is quite an old town, and it
has always been ambitious to become
large city. 1t is only within the last two
years, however. that she has shown the
energy and enterprise which are necessary
to promote the growth of a city. The
reason that she has not shown these charac-
teristics before is, doubtless, that she did
not have as many enterprising and progress
sive citizens as she has now. Brunswick is
certainly growing, and that, too, in IA way
that gives promise of a splendid future In
fact it may not be too much to say that she
is about the only comparatively small place
on the entire coast which promises to become
a large city.
The character of her new buildings are
beginning to attract attention. They are
handsome in architectural features and i'm
posing in size. The old wooden buildings
are gradually disappearing, and they are
being replaced by structures which would
be an ornament to almost any city. Bruins
wick has gas and water works, and will
soon have street railways. She has two
wide awake daily newspapers and a third
one is projected. Her new hotel will soon
be ready to receive guests, and very pretty
and commodious hotel it is. The new stores
aud residences which are in the course of
construction belong to the better class of
buildings, and they add much to the solid
and prosperous appearance of the town.
OF course all of these improvements indi-
cate clearly that Brunswick has a good
many citizens of the enterprising and pro-
gressive kind. They are demonstrating
what well directed energy and pluck can do,
and their success will be sufficient to induce
many to follow their example. Those of
them who are merchants are reaching out
beyond the States line for trade, and they
are getting it. A great deal of trade,
which they once unsuccessfully sought, now
comes to them unaslzed. Their magnificent
and well stocked warehouses are advertise
ments which help to build up their business.
Brunswick is not without advantages for
controlling large trade. She has two rail
roads, one of which traverses the richest
part of this State, and the other extends
from one limit of the State to another, pass
ing through several of its most flourishipg
cities. Brunswick has also a fine harbor-
one of the finest on the coast-and Of which
her people are justly proud.
The people of Brunswick have been wait
ing for years for the very thing that is now
happening to her. and her present prosperity
is, therefore, all the more appreciated and
enjoyed But satisfactory as their prosper
ity now is, still greater results are aimed at.
They appear to be determined to make their
town rival of the leading South Atlantic
seaports, and who can say they will not sue
coed?